From: Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2016 09:44:53 -0800
> From: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> > > CAP_NET_ADMIN users should not be allowed to set negative > sk_sndbuf or sk_rcvbuf values, as it can lead to various memory > corruptions, crashes, OOM... > > Note that before commit 82981930125a ("net: cleanups in > sock_setsockopt()"), the bug was even more serious, since SO_SNDBUF > and SO_RCVBUF were vulnerable. > > This needs to be backported to all known linux kernels. > > Again, many thanks to syzkaller team for discovering this gem. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> > Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyk...@google.com> Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Eric.